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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 52]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finished volume 9 of Daemons of the Shadow Realm and I’ve got to say it’s really good. I think I might actually like it more than its more famous older sibling, Fullmetal Alchemist. It’ll be impossible to tell until it’s complete of course, but at the least I think it gets off to a stronger start. The anime will definitely be one to look forward to this spring, though the subtitles in the trailer have me worried that the localization might be a little lazy and flavorless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that I’ve read Dogsred (same mangaka) I really want to get into Golden Kamuy but unfortunately I just don’t see myself catching up by the start of the season - or even the end of it tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Things I’m excited for this season, in descending order:

  • Medalist S2
  • a pretty wide gap tbh
  • Frieren S2
  • Jujutsu Kaisen S3
  • Oshi no Ko S3

  So why the wide gap? I liked the beginnings of those last three shows quite a lot, but I’ve read the manga for all of them and IMO they all go downhill as they go on. Also, Medalist really is just that good. It’s a great story with a decent adaptation and I’ll take that over a decent story with a great adaptation any day. And who knows, maybe Season 2 will fix some of the minor issues Season 1 had - in particular I’d appreciate it if they could make the spins look better. Guess we’ll find out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Mechanical Marie • Kikaijikake no Marie - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the first half of the episode would’ve been really fun if they’d spent more than $8 making it. I liked the diegetic piano though!

  As for the show overall, it was okay. The only part of the adaptation I liked was Marie’s and Marie 2’s voice acting though. Apart from that I mostly wish I spent that time on the manga instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wheels of fate can be harsh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from “sucks to be an orphan” which really doesn’t tell us much I don’t think we know much about the world of Made in Abyss apart from the contents of the hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanda seems cool, but I’ve only seen the first few episodes and I don’t think it’s on CR or Netflix. Apart from that my fall 2025 recommendation is to get caught up on other stuff. Here are a few of my favorites that are on Crunchyroll:

  • Yakitate!! Japan
  • Akira
  • Dan Da Dan
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  • Gurren Lagann
  • Kaguya-sama: Love is War
  • Skip and Loafer
  • Brave Bang Bravern!
  • Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
  • Mobile Suit GUNDAM Iron Blooded Orphans
  • Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam
  • Ping Pong the Animation
  • Record of Lodoss War
  • Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
  • STEINS;GATE
  • Ouran High School Host Club
  • Apocalypse Hotel
  • Gunbuster
  • Eureka Seven
  • Mob Psycho 100
  • Nichijou
  • Code Geass
  • Cowboy Bebop
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished my Gundam 00 rewatch. Overall it holds up well. I might be the only person who likes season 2 more than season 1 though! I also watched the Gundam 00 movie for the first time. I’d say I liked it about as much as the TV series. I would go into details on why but that’s spoilers and spoilers are a massive pain on this platform so I won’t bother.

  Since I was in a Gundam mood I also watched the SEED Freedom movie. I thought it was kinda bad. Not as bad as SEED Destiny because that would take some real effort, but still worse than SEED itself. Gotta admire the director’s dedication to horniness. Never gotten such a view of a woman’s ass while she was sitting in a chair before. How does that even work? Anyways, decent action but horrible plot. Also, I could’ve sworn the guns that shoot green lasers were also making Imperial Tie Fighter laser noises. I need to do a side-by-side comparison.

  I felt like doing more anime things, so inspired by the Quest for the Best podcast I watched my first Uma Musume thing: the Beginning of a New Era movie. It was really well-made. The characters were fun. The story was well-written. Absolutely no complaints about the animation. I think I just fundamentally don’t care even one iota about horse racing or idols, so the movie fell a little flat for me. I still enjoyed it, just not nearly as much as some others seem to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Mechanical Marie • Kikaijikake no Marie - Episode 11 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, he really just dumped her in the bathtub with her towel. I know that was supposed to be a serious scene and I guess there are important modesty reasons for doing it (but then why have this happen in the bathroom in the first place) but I was distracted by the sopping-wet towel the whole time.

  Anyways, I wasn’t sure what I expected Marie to do here but infiltrating the ranks of the assassins wasn’t even on the list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨until next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The translator would have to know enough Japanese to not just step in, but to verify every word that gets translated. At that point you’re not really saving much on either skill or time by using machine learning tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I (finally) finished my re-read of Kaguya-sama: Love is War this morning. Wow! What an amazing manga. Aka Akasaka is really good at writing fun characters and putting them in fun situations. A little less good at writing really serious stuff, which drags down certain parts of the manga, but only maybe 10% of it. Overall it’s still my favorite romcom by a wide margin. Maybe when I finally read Wotakoi that’ll change, but for now it’s time to finish Daemons of the Shadow Realm/Yomi no Tsugai.

  I started Daemons of the Shadow Realm when I was hanging out at the International Manga Museum in Kyoto. This one was written by the same mangaka who wrote Fullmetal Alchemist, and it shows! Anyways, I’m a quarter of the way through volume 2 and so far it’s been fun. I guess I’ll report back in a month or two once I’ve finished the 10 volumes I brought back with me from Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text

  Have you tried? These tools might not be up to the standard you think. Not even Youtube’s autotranslate stuff is actually any good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Code Geass Hoshi Oi no Aspar” Anime Announced (Teaser Visual)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only ever watched the original series. Is any of the rest of it any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly N1 is probably unnecessary. I think most people who’ve passed N2 could do a great job with most shounen stuff. It’s not like they need to do it in real time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 49]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that Thanksgiving is past, it’s properly Christmas season - and that means it was time for me to pick up Sanda. Seems properly unhinged, and perfect for the month of December. I’ve only watched the first episode though, so who knows whether it’ll be able to keep that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s you and the soulless husks in charge of Amazon!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, LLM localization is the greater challenge. I highly doubt those, including the classic machine-learning models, can reach N1-level localization quality.

  There’s no chance it’s happening any time soon. Many manga and anime lean heavily on visual context to clear up situations where the language would otherwise be ambiguous, so until the translation software can also use that visual context it’s basically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You may be underestimating how bad these AI dubs are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World Season 4 - New Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sick, looks like that’ll be a good season for fantasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World Season 4 - New Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see a date here. Is there a date?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest issue with Eureka Seven is that it starts really slow, but unfortunately plenty of people have bounced off because of that. Very unfortunate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Redline is one of my favorite anime, but I’ve never seen it described as “emotional” before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Medalist (sports comedy)

  I always looked at it as more of a sports drama with some really good comedic moments. Either way, top-tier show. Looking forward to Season 2 this January!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Witch Hat Atelier | Official Trailer 2 | Crunchyroll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks great; this is definitely something to be excited for!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely the ending of the whole story I’m afraid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 47]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Code Geass’s story really is just that great, but if you don’t like the main characters I can’t really recommend you resume - I don’t think they fundamentally change much by the end. It’s not like there’s a shortage of other great anime to watch after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Chapter] Ruri Dragon - Ch. 41 - We All Suck at Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if I asked a friend to hang out over summer break and he responded that way we wouldn’t be friends anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 46]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think maybe you misunderstood something about Kaguya-sama as a result of having watched just the very beginning. What the narrator says the show is about and what the show is actually about are two completely different things. The narrator tells you the show is about these two using bullshit tactics to try to make a relationship happen. What the show is actually about (among other things) is those two learning to lay down their pride so they can actually be happy. I promise you that as you see more of these characters you’ll find that they really are easy to cheer for - even if they just come across as prideful jerks at the beginning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Style Anime Suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting that the Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake has far worse music and character designs, so I recommend people go with the older one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] 10 Best Long-Running Anime That Will Keep Fans Busy For Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But sort of requires some meta-knowledge of pre-2010 anime to really be elevated.

  You also have to be comfortable with an average of around 1-2 mosiac’d dicks and other things on-screen per episode.